Edward Snowden features on a Jean-Michel Jarre techno track
The former CIA employee is a "hero of our times", according to Jarre
When Jean-Michel Jarre's latest album was announced, did you wonder who collaborator E.S was when studying the tracklist?
It turns out it's Edward Snowden, the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA).
Joining the likes of Julia Holter, Jeff Mills, Hans Zimmer and The Orb, Snowden's speaking on 'Exit', the "hectic obsessive techno track" Jarre produced to "illustrate the idea of this crazy quest for big data on one side and the manhunt for this one young guy by the CIA, NSA and FBI on the other”.
The unlikely collab was stitched together by the Guardian, who put Jarre in contact with Snowden's solicitor, with the two later recording the vocals on Skype before meeting each other in Moscow.
On the project, Jarre said: “I wanted to film him, because I want to play the track on stage. I think it’s important if I’m playing at festivals with a young audience that the statements in the track are promoted and exposed. We spent three hours together, we filmed him, we talked about a lot of things.”
There's still a few weeks before the collaborative album 'Electronica Volume II: The Heart Of Noise' is released on May 6, so they'll be hoping it doesn't leak beforehand.
[Via: FACT]
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